. The natural history of plants. Botany. COMBRETACEM. 269 Terminalia {Oonocarpus) erecta. Venezuela, has a slightly fleshy fruit with three to six thick vertical wings, entire, sinuous, or lobed at the margin. Besides, their flowers are collected in capitules, that is, the principal axis remains the shortest as often, happens in the true Terminalia, although the latter frequently have also flowers in elongate simple or compound spikes (fig. 235). The flowers of Anogeissus are also in capitules. This is why we have not retained, as dis- tinct from Terminalia, Oono- carpus (fig. 240), which has
. The natural history of plants. Botany. COMBRETACEM. 269 Terminalia {Oonocarpus) erecta. Venezuela, has a slightly fleshy fruit with three to six thick vertical wings, entire, sinuous, or lobed at the margin. Besides, their flowers are collected in capitules, that is, the principal axis remains the shortest as often, happens in the true Terminalia, although the latter frequently have also flowers in elongate simple or compound spikes (fig. 235). The flowers of Anogeissus are also in capitules. This is why we have not retained, as dis- tinct from Terminalia, Oono- carpus (fig. 240), which has the same apetalous, pentame- rous flowers as Terminalia, but the inflorescences of which become small globular capi- tules collected in clusters. In Gonocarpus, the fruit is finally surrounded externally by per- sistent recurved bracts re- maining close to each other so that the whole forms a sort of cone. Thus limited, this genus comprises nearly a hundred species, all tropical, common to the four quarters of th^ globe, principally in the old Fig. 240. 'Ploriferous branch. II. TUPELOS SEEIES. Tupelos^ (fig. 241-244) has polygamo-dicecious flowers. In the male flower, the summit of the pedicel is dilated to a small calyx with five or more short teeth, surmounted by a thick • Ni/ssa Gbonov. Virg. 162.—L. (?en. n. H63. —J. Gen. 75.—Lamk. III. t. 851.—Pom. Diet. iv. 508 ; Suppl. iv. 115.—G-tertn, y. Fruet. iii. 201, t. 216.—Spaoh, Suit, a Bufon, x. i63.— Endl. Gen. n, 2086.—Lindl. Yeg. Kingd. 720.— A. DO. Trodr. xiv. 622.—H. Bn. Adansonia, v. 196.—B. H. Gen. 952, n. \\.—Tupelo Catesb. (ex Adans. Fam. des PI. ii. 80).—Cynoxylon Pluk. (ex Adans. loo. oil.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Baillon, Henri Ernest, 1827-1895; Hartog, Marcus Manuel, 1851-. London, L.
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